Add two or three key events from each chapter that we have read - chapters 1-6 – reflecting on the rising action.
Identify each chapter and put the two or three events as complete sentences under the chapter number.
For example:
Setting Time and Place Chapter 1 · The characters arrive at Sticklehaven off the coast of Devon, intent on traveling to Indian Island, which has been in the news lately because it is surrounded by mystery. · The main characters wonder about the people they meet, and are excited at the chance to spend a week at this luxurious island. Chapter 2 Two or three bulleted sentences explaining your events.
Setting- In homeland ready to go to Indian Indian Island, or carrages
Time- 1920-1930
Place- homeland and Indian Island, Sticklehavenm Devon
Chapter 1:
-Vera Claythorne is in a third-class carriage and recieves a note that she is invited to be a secretary at Indian Island. She is exicited to go because the island is in the news and she is cerious to learn more about it.
-Ten people arrive at Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon curious to see what will the island is about and about the peers they are with upon the island.
Setting-On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place-Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 2:
- They see a poem "Ten Little Indians", it is about ten Indians that are on Indian Island and they are ten different ways that they all die. - They heard Vera saying how the sea can be so beautiful, yet so dangerous. This gives you the idea that something possibly happened with the sea.
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 3: -They see ten little Indian statues as the center piece of the table. A counidential that there are ten travelers on the Island. -There is a gramaphone saying that all ten people on the Island have killed someone some how.
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 4: - They find out that Wargrave did send Seton to jail even though he was innocent. - They discuss how Philip Lombard left the twenty-one East African tribes men to die - They find out that Edward George Armstrong was drunk while operating on Lousia Mary Clees and that is how she died.
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 5- - Anthony Marston from taking a drink and then he died - They investigate how Anthony died. The doctor took a little sip from his glass and then thinks it was some sort of poison. - They talk about how Macarthur killed Arthur Richmon (his wife's lover) by sending him out to war to be killed.
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 6: -Doctor Armstrong is having a dream when he is in an operation -Mrs. Rodgers dies when she was sleeping. They try to investigate how she possibly could have died.
Katie - Good summaries. Looks like you have a very good idea of what is going on! Perfect! Mrs. M
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 7: -They discuss how Beatrice Taylor died. It was not really Emily Brent's fault, because Beatrice was the one who jumped of the bridge. -Vera thinks that it is Emily's fault that Beatrice commited sucide because of how Emily treated her.
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 8: - Lombard, Blore, and Armstrong search the island to look for hiding places and to see if other people could possibly be on the island. - The group asks how Marston dies
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 9: - Dr. Armstrong admits that he gave Mrs. Rodgers "a mild dose of trional", however it possibly could have been too much. - General Macartur died, and another China Indian figure is missing. -They think that one of the seven people left on the island is the murder (Mr. U.N. Owen).
Setting- On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 10: -Lombard thinks that the murder is, Wargrave because he is an old man, has been presiding over courts for many years, and he thinks he is so powerful. -Vera thinks the murder is, Dr. Armstrong, because two deaths have possibly been from poison (he could easily get his hands on some poison), he was at all the sceans, and has medical knowledge. - Emily wrote in her black journal that she thinks the murder is Beatrice Taylor. Then she wakes up and thinks that she has gone mad because Beatrice Taylor is dead. -The bathroom curtain is missing. -The judge is telling everyone to lock their doors and put a chair under the handle.
Setting-On Indian Island Time- 1920-1930 Place-Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 11: - They found Mr. Rodgers, dead. He was chopping wood and there was a cut in the back of his head. Armstrong thinks the murder just came up behind him and swung the chopper at his head. Before they found him dead Emily Brent was wondering around the island in the morning so it makes you think that she could possibly be the murder. Also before they found Rodgers dead they noticed that there were only six Indian figures left which told the group that someone had died. - Vera Claythorne is asking if there are any bees on the island for honey, as a joke because of the poem. - Emily Brent was thinking that the others will die and that she will not. Emily also had a dream that Beatrice Taylor wanted to come in and that she pressed her face up against the glass. Emily wasn't going to let her in because if she did "something bad was going to happen".
Setting- On Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 12: -Emily Brent was feeling a little giddy and the doctor offered her something but she refused. After that she felt drowsy and started hearing a buzzing noise. - Emily Brent was sitting in the dining room and she could feel the bee coming down her throat and stinging her. When the group came in they found her sitting in a chair, dead. Dr. Armstrong thinks that it was Potassium Cyanide, the same as Anthony Marston, is what killed her. - Dr. Armstong's hypodermic syringe and Wargrave's revolver was missing. However, Blore knew where the hypodermic syringe is, a little distance away from the dinign room window. Right next to the sixth broken Indian boy.
Setting-On Island Time-1920-1930 Place-Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 13: -Vera goes up to her room and she smells the St, Tredennick sea. Ten she feels a cold, clammy, wet "hand" touch her, she screams. The boys come to see what is wrong and then she relizes that it is just sea weed. - Judge Wargrave isn't with Claythorne, Blore, Armstrong, or Lombard and they thought he was right behind him. They go back downstaids and find him dead in the chair dressed like a judge and he is wearing the curtain, having the revolver in hand, and wearing a wig.
Setting- On Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 14: -Blore woke up in the middle of the night and thought that someone was walking in the house. He goes to get Lombard and then they search the house. They go to get Armstrong but is no where to be found. Blore and Lombard conclude that Armstrong is dead or no longer on the Island because there were only three china figures left. -Vera stays in her room while the boys go and look for Armstrong. While she is in her room she is thinking of Cyril and Hugo.
Setting- On Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 15: -Lombard states that his revolver was put back into his drawer. -Vera noticaes that the statement "red harring" is sometime that leads you to believe something. In the poem it states that one was swallowed by a red harring so she thinks that Armstrong is not dead. -Blore, Claythorne, and Lombard go on a cliff, when Blore goes back to the house for lunch alone he ends up getting his head crushed by a marble stone (with the statue of a bear near by). -Lombard and Claythore go out by the water and see a rock with Armstong's dead body on it with a purple drowned face.
Setting- On Island Time- 1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Chapter 16: - Claythorne and Lombard bring Armstrong's dead body back to the house. -Vera steels Lombard's revolver out of his pocket and then she shoots him right through the heart. She then throws the last two china figures out the window. -She goes up stairs and drops the last Indian figure then hangs herself.
Setting- On Island Time-1920-1930 Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon Epilogue: -They explain that a man named Isaac Morris went to the island and made arrangements for the travelers but died on the island. -The island previously belonged to Elmer Robson -Isaac Morris set up the gramaphone and told Narracot not to go to the island
Manuscript Document: -Explains that Justice Wargrave killed all the travelers on the island - This letter is written from Justice Wargrave
Climax: -When they find the note that Justice Wargrave wrote saying that he was the one behind all the killings.
Katie- You've put lots of time and effort into these assignments. When the note is found, it resolves, or 'solves' all the unanswered questions; therefore it is not the climax. When Justice Wargrave fakes his death, the novel changes drastically. All the characters don't know whom to trust and their fearless leader is gone. Everything is downhill from there. Mrs. M
Monday, October 28, 2010
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Example:
· Vera Claythorne
Sentence #1 about Vera Claythorne
Sentence #2 about Vera Claythorne
Captin Lombard- Captin Lombard has done illegal things before. He is guilty of killing twenty one members of an East African tribe.
Mr. Justice Wargrave- He is a retired judge and is interested in Indian Island and it being bought. Justice Wargrave was invited to the Island by Constance Culmington and is guilty of murdering Edward Seton.
Mr. Blore- Mr. Blore claims that he is from South Africa, he says this because not many people know about South Africa so he is then able to tell people fibs about where he lived. He seems to know everyone that ventures onto the island.
Dr. Armstrong- He operates while he is drunk. He is a doctor that deals with satisfying women by diognaosing them with things they really don't have.
Tony Marston- He was the first one to die by putting some sort of posin. He did drink often and was younger, about twenty-five, they think that he put the posin in is drink to kill himself.
Put a line above Assignment #1; assignment #2 will go above assignment #1.
Read chapter two.
Choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
With your small group, find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Each member of your group must write on his or her WIKI page the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
Then, in a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Read chapter three for Monday, October 25.
Our group chose to find four elements of foreshadowing. An example of it would be on page thirty-two "The sea...So peaceful to-day--sometimes so cruel...The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned...Found drowned...Drowned at sea....Drowned--drowned---drowned..." I think that this small paragraph is foreshadowing because it is giving you clues that someone is going to drown and be found up on the shore dead because of the sea. Another example of foreshadowing is on page thirty-six states that " good thing, perhaps that one can't foresee the future." This is an example of foreshadowing because the old man that Mr. Blore was taking to was correct that judgment day was coming for Mr. Blore in the near future. One more example of foreshadowing is located on page twenty-six "Queer business when you came to think of it--the whole thing was queer--very queer..." I think this is an example of foreshadowing because it means that Fred Narracott knows that something is suspicious and wrong with this whole thing. He may become a much bigger character in the story because he knows that something is wrong. The final example of foreshadowing is the poem located on page thirty-three. The poem states,
"Then little Indian boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys traveling in Deovon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
Once chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself and then there were none."
I think this is an example of foreshadowing because these could be ten ways that the people on the island die. There are ten ways that people die in this poem and I think that these could possibly be then ten ways that the characters on the island die too. For example one could get killed by a bear or one could get killed by hanging them self. Also at the end of this poem there is the line "and then there were none" which is also the title of the book which gives you some ideas on why the book was named this. With all of these forms of foreshadowing it gives you some hints on what is going to happen next. Which makes me wonder...are these predictions really going to happen, and if they are then when?
Your group chose wisely. Good examples of foreshadowing. Mrs. M
A mystery novel has many characteristics that express what it is and how it makes you, the reader, feel. A narrative story is different from a mystery story in many ways. A mystery novel can have you on the edge of your chair waiting to see what will happen next. Or it can give you questions to ponder about while you are reading the book. You could be thinking, will she live, who is the thief, or what is going to happen next. A narrative story can make you feel different emotions happy, sad, worried, or angry. Even though a mystery story may make you feel this way as well mostly mystery stories have stronger emotions. A narrative story usually has a narrator and is written in third person. When a mystery is usually put in the perspective of a character. Even though mystery and narrative novels are different they both are two of my favorite types of books to read. The title And Then There Was None gives me the impression that people are going to die. I think this because when we hear the word none, we think of the no more or all gone. However, some titles can be misleading so the title is a mystery in this suspenseful mystery book.
A prediction that I have that might not be coming up in the next chapter is that the characters will end up on island. Trying to find a ways to survive. I think that because it is a mystery book there will be some sort of thief or killer. So perhaps the killer or thief will be secretly among them on the island first taking valuable items. Then slowing killing everyone person by person. As we get into the rising action of the book I think it will become more suspenseful. I enjoy predicting what will happen in the book and then seeing if my prediction was correct or not.
Nice answers, Katie. Thoughtful and thorough! Mrs. M
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November 11, 2010
Setting Time and Place Chapter 1 · The characters arrive at Sticklehaven off the coast of Devon, intent on traveling to Indian Island, which has been in the news lately because it is surrounded by mystery. · The main characters wonder about the people they meet, and are excited at the chance to spend a week at this luxurious island. Chapter 2 Two or three bulleted sentences explaining your events.
Setting- In homeland ready to go to Indian Indian Island, or carrages
Time- 1920-1930
Place- homeland and Indian Island, Sticklehavenm Devon
Chapter 1:
-Vera Claythorne is in a third-class carriage and recieves a note that she is invited to be a secretary at Indian Island. She is exicited to go because the island is in the news and she is cerious to learn more about it.
-Ten people arrive at Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon curious to see what will the island is about and about the peers they are with upon the island.
Setting-On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place-Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 2:
- They see a poem "Ten Little Indians", it is about ten Indians that are on Indian Island and they are ten different ways that they all die.- They heard Vera saying how the sea can be so beautiful, yet so dangerous. This gives you the idea that something possibly happened with the sea.
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 3:
-They see ten little Indian statues as the center piece of the table. A counidential that there are ten travelers on the Island.
-There is a gramaphone saying that all ten people on the Island have killed someone some how.
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 4:
- They find out that Wargrave did send Seton to jail even though he was innocent.
- They discuss how Philip Lombard left the twenty-one East African tribes men to die
- They find out that Edward George Armstrong was drunk while operating on Lousia Mary Clees and that is how she died.
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 5-
- Anthony Marston from taking a drink and then he died
- They investigate how Anthony died. The doctor took a little sip from his glass and then thinks it was some sort of poison.
- They talk about how Macarthur killed Arthur Richmon (his wife's lover) by sending him out to war to be killed.
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 6:
-Doctor Armstrong is having a dream when he is in an operation
-Mrs. Rodgers dies when she was sleeping. They try to investigate how she possibly could have died.
Katie - Good summaries. Looks like you have a very good idea of what is going on! Perfect!
Mrs. M
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 7:
-They discuss how Beatrice Taylor died. It was not really Emily Brent's fault, because Beatrice was the one who jumped of the bridge.
-Vera thinks that it is Emily's fault that Beatrice commited sucide because of how Emily treated her.
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 8:
- Lombard, Blore, and Armstrong search the island to look for hiding places and to see if other people could possibly be on the island.
- The group asks how Marston dies
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 9:
- Dr. Armstrong admits that he gave Mrs. Rodgers "a mild dose of trional", however it possibly could have been too much.
- General Macartur died, and another China Indian figure is missing.
-They think that one of the seven people left on the island is the murder (Mr. U.N. Owen).
Setting- On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 10:
-Lombard thinks that the murder is, Wargrave because he is an old man, has been presiding over courts for many years, and he thinks he is so powerful.
-Vera thinks the murder is, Dr. Armstrong, because two deaths have possibly been from poison (he could easily get his hands on some poison), he was at all the sceans, and has medical knowledge.
- Emily wrote in her black journal that she thinks the murder is Beatrice Taylor. Then she wakes up and thinks that she has gone mad because Beatrice Taylor is dead.
-The bathroom curtain is missing.
-The judge is telling everyone to lock their doors and put a chair under the handle.
Setting-On Indian Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place-Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 11:
- They found Mr. Rodgers, dead. He was chopping wood and there was a cut in the back of his head. Armstrong thinks the murder just came up behind him and swung the chopper at his head. Before they found him dead Emily Brent was wondering around the island in the morning so it makes you think that she could possibly be the murder. Also before they found Rodgers dead they noticed that there were only six Indian figures left which told the group that someone had died.
- Vera Claythorne is asking if there are any bees on the island for honey, as a joke because of the poem.
- Emily Brent was thinking that the others will die and that she will not. Emily also had a dream that Beatrice Taylor wanted to come in and that she pressed her face up against the glass. Emily wasn't going to let her in because if she did "something bad was going to happen".
Setting- On Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 12:
-Emily Brent was feeling a little giddy and the doctor offered her something but she refused. After that she felt drowsy and started hearing a buzzing noise.
- Emily Brent was sitting in the dining room and she could feel the bee coming down her throat and stinging her. When the group came in they found her sitting in a chair, dead. Dr. Armstrong thinks that it was Potassium Cyanide, the same as Anthony Marston, is what killed her.
- Dr. Armstong's hypodermic syringe and Wargrave's revolver was missing. However, Blore knew where the hypodermic syringe is, a little distance away from the dinign room window. Right next to the sixth broken Indian boy.
Setting-On Island
Time-1920-1930
Place-Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 13:
-Vera goes up to her room and she smells the St, Tredennick sea. Ten she feels a cold, clammy, wet "hand" touch her, she screams. The boys come to see what is wrong and then she relizes that it is just sea weed.
- Judge Wargrave isn't with Claythorne, Blore, Armstrong, or Lombard and they thought he was right behind him. They go back downstaids and find him dead in the chair dressed like a judge and he is wearing the curtain, having the revolver in hand, and wearing a wig.
Setting- On Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 14:
-Blore woke up in the middle of the night and thought that someone was walking in the house. He goes to get Lombard and then they search the house. They go to get Armstrong but is no where to be found. Blore and Lombard conclude that Armstrong is dead or no longer on the Island because there were only three china figures left.
-Vera stays in her room while the boys go and look for Armstrong. While she is in her room she is thinking of Cyril and Hugo.
Setting- On Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 15:
-Lombard states that his revolver was put back into his drawer.
-Vera noticaes that the statement "red harring" is sometime that leads you to believe something. In the poem it states that one was swallowed by a red harring so she thinks that Armstrong is not dead.
-Blore, Claythorne, and Lombard go on a cliff, when Blore goes back to the house for lunch alone he ends up getting his head crushed by a marble stone (with the statue of a bear near by).
-Lombard and Claythore go out by the water and see a rock with Armstong's dead body on it with a purple drowned face.
Setting- On Island
Time- 1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Chapter 16:
- Claythorne and Lombard bring Armstrong's dead body back to the house.
-Vera steels Lombard's revolver out of his pocket and then she shoots him right through the heart. She then throws the last two china figures out the window.
-She goes up stairs and drops the last Indian figure then hangs herself.
Setting- On Island
Time-1920-1930
Place- Indian Island, Sticklehaven, Devon
Epilogue:
-They explain that a man named Isaac Morris went to the island and made arrangements for the travelers but died on the island.
-The island previously belonged to Elmer Robson
-Isaac Morris set up the gramaphone and told Narracot not to go to the island
Manuscript Document:
-Explains that Justice Wargrave killed all the travelers on the island
- This letter is written from Justice Wargrave
Climax:
-When they find the note that Justice Wargrave wrote saying that he was the one behind all the killings.
Katie-
You've put lots of time and effort into these assignments. When the note is found, it resolves, or 'solves' all the unanswered questions; therefore it is not the climax. When Justice Wargrave fakes his death, the novel changes drastically. All the characters don't know whom to trust and their fearless leader is gone. Everything is downhill from there.
Mrs. M
Monday, October 28, 2010
Add the date at the top of your page.
Add your answers to the TOP of your page under the date.
Choose five characters from the story,
Write two sentences telling what you know about him or her.
BOLD the character's name and write your sentences about that character right underneath his or her name.
Example:
· Vera Claythorne
Sentence #1 about Vera Claythorne
Sentence #2 about Vera Claythorne
Captin Lombard-
Captin Lombard has done illegal things before.
He is guilty of killing twenty one members of an East African tribe.
Mr. Justice Wargrave-
He is a retired judge and is interested in Indian Island and it being bought.
Justice Wargrave was invited to the Island by Constance Culmington and is guilty of murdering
Edward Seton.
Mr. Blore-
Mr. Blore claims that he is from South Africa, he says this because not many people know about
South Africa so he is then able to tell people fibs about where he lived.
He seems to know everyone that ventures onto the island.
Dr. Armstrong-
He operates while he is drunk.
He is a doctor that deals with satisfying women by diognaosing them with things they really don't
have.
Tony Marston-
He was the first one to die by putting some sort of posin.
He did drink often and was younger, about twenty-five, they think that he put the posin in is drink to kill
himself.
Good job, Katie.
Mrs. M
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Questions:
Put a line above Assignment #1; assignment #2 will go above assignment #1.
Read chapter two.
Choose one of the following: suspense or foreshadowing.
With your small group, find four examples of suspense OR foreshadowing in chapter two.
Each member of your group must write on his or her WIKI page the exact wording from the book - that means type the sentences exactly as they are written.
Then, in a well-written paragraph, explain why these sentences clearly show either suspense or foreshadowing.
Read chapter three for Monday, October 25.
Our group chose to find four elements of foreshadowing. An example of it would be on page thirty-two "The sea...So peaceful to-day--sometimes so cruel...The sea that dragged you down to its depths. Drowned...Found drowned...Drowned at sea....Drowned--drowned---drowned..." I think that this small paragraph is foreshadowing because it is giving you clues that someone is going to drown and be found up on the shore dead because of the sea. Another example of foreshadowing is on page thirty-six states that " good thing, perhaps that one can't foresee the future." This is an example of foreshadowing because the old man that Mr. Blore was taking to was correct that judgment day was coming for Mr. Blore in the near future. One more example of foreshadowing is located on page twenty-six "Queer business when you came to think of it--the whole thing was queer--very queer..." I think this is an example of foreshadowing because it means that Fred Narracott knows that something is suspicious and wrong with this whole thing. He may become a much bigger character in the story because he knows that something is wrong. The final example of foreshadowing is the poem located on page thirty-three. The poem states,
"Then little Indian boys went out to dine;
One choked his little self and then there were nine.
Nine little Indian boys sat up very late;
One overslept himself and then there were eight.
Eight little Indian boys traveling in Deovon;
One said he'd stay there and then there were seven.
Seven little Indian boys chopping up sticks;
Once chopped himself in halves and then there were six.
Six little Indian boys playing with a hive;
A bumblebee stung one and then there were five.
Five little Indian boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.
Four little Indian boys going out to sea;
A red herring swallowed one and then there were three.
Three little Indian boys walking in the Zoo;
A big bear hugged one and then there were two.
Two little Indian boys sitting in the sun;
One got frizzled up and then there was one.
One little Indian boy left all alone;
He went and hanged himself and then there were none."
I think this is an example of foreshadowing because these could be ten ways that the people on the island die. There are ten ways that people die in this poem and I think that these could possibly be then ten ways that the characters on the island die too. For example one could get killed by a bear or one could get killed by hanging them self. Also at the end of this poem there is the line "and then there were none" which is also the title of the book which gives you some ideas on why the book was named this. With all of these forms of foreshadowing it gives you some hints on what is going to happen next. Which makes me wonder...are these predictions really going to happen, and if they are then when?
Your group chose wisely. Good examples of foreshadowing.
Mrs. M
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Questions:
how does a mystery novel differ from a narrative?
how might the title be a clue to the story?
A mystery novel has many characteristics that express what it is and how it makes you, the reader, feel. A narrative story is different from a mystery story in many ways. A mystery novel can have you on the edge of your chair waiting to see what will happen next. Or it can give you questions to ponder about while you are reading the book. You could be thinking, will she live, who is the thief, or what is going to happen next. A narrative story can make you feel different emotions happy, sad, worried, or angry. Even though a mystery story may make you feel this way as well mostly mystery stories have stronger emotions. A narrative story usually has a narrator and is written in third person. When a mystery is usually put in the perspective of a character. Even though mystery and narrative novels are different they both are two of my favorite types of books to read. The title And Then There Was None gives me the impression that people are going to die. I think this because when we hear the word none, we think of the no more or all gone. However, some titles can be misleading so the title is a mystery in this suspenseful mystery book.
A prediction that I have that might not be coming up in the next chapter is that the characters will end up on island. Trying to find a ways to survive. I think that because it is a mystery book there will be some sort of thief or killer. So perhaps the killer or thief will be secretly among them on the island first taking valuable items. Then slowing killing everyone person by person. As we get into the rising action of the book I think it will become more suspenseful. I enjoy predicting what will happen in the book and then seeing if my prediction was correct or not.
Nice answers, Katie. Thoughtful and thorough!Mrs. M